Hello to all!
I’ve been using 6.48.2 for a while now in my small home business network, based on a RB760iGS as a master router and CAPSMAN manager and two access points, one cAP AC (RBcAPGi-5acD2nD) and another one cAP Lite (RBcAPL-2nD), both as CAP Clients. All devices have their firmware upgraded as well to 6.48.2.
Although the wireless network load is very small (some kbps from 4 devices), the cAP AC memory is almost never under 87% (it varies from 78% to over 90%). Sometimes it even resets itself, probably due to lack of resources). At the same time, the much lighter cAP Lite with the same amount of wireless clients and traffic, never exceeds 40% memory utilization.
I use Local Forwarding in CAPSMAN and I have also deactivated all non-necessary software packages in both (same package config in both). When the wireless package is deactivated in the ARM AP (the cAP AC), memory consumption drops to 55%. I use one wireless network in each chain (2.4/5 GHz), i.e. total two available wireless networks.
This memory consumption was not observed under the previous firmware, 6.48.1. Most notably, it occurs in the ARM wireless device and not the MIPS one.
If anyone could point to any direction towards reducing this memory allocation under the ARM architecture or if he/she has experienced the same behavior from the AP, it would be much appreciated to know about.